Monthly Magazine praised as fireside companion for American readers
The piece extols Harper's Monthly Magazine as a leading periodical with about 170000 copies per issue. It highlights 144 pages per number, wood cuts, and a blend of light reading with serious literature. It compares favorably with other journals and notes its broad appeal in American letters.
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Harper’s Magazine
Wethonvet Protestant
Baltimore
New York
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London
Boston Courier
Subscription service advertised for weekly mail delivery in 1865
The notice states publishers perfected a system to supply a weekly MORNE to subscribers via a publishing office. Payment details mention postage and a subscription insert, with terms to receive the periodicals by mail through the post office.
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Harper Brothers offer for Magazine and back volumes 1937
An advertisement from Harper Brothers lists pricing for a one year subscription to a magazine, extra copies, and back numbers. Details include $400 for a year, discounts on multiple copies, and cloth binding options with postage paid. The offer mentions twenty nine volumes in cloth, priced at $225 per volume, plus binding cases and mail service from New York.
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Brothers
Paangcin Square
New Youre
Godeys Lady's Book Fashion Magazine Appeal
Godeys Lady's Book presents fashion plates and patterns in crochet embroidery drawing lessons music and bonnet making guidance. It touts extensive engravings household receipts and contributions from Marion Harland and other steady contributors.
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GODEY
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A. T Stewart & Co
New York
Gutley
Marion Harland
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Hidden Path
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Nemesis
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Terms of Godeys Lady's Book for 1863
The notice outlines subscription terms for the Lady's Book, noting rates and conditions for receiving issues and club entitlements, with references to prices and special offers as read from the damaged text.
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Godey
Winter Flowers and a ChildLaid to Rest
A mournful poem portrays a mother unable to speak as a child lies dead beneath winter imagery. Flowers, hair, and a white lock are described beside the coffin while the mother’s grief deepens and the house hears of a child lost. The tone recalls a quiet, somber funeral scene.
Beaten Rose Ode on a Christian Life and Death
Fragmented verse praises a rose as symbol of Christian life. It compares beauty and frailty to mortal strife, noting wind and time scatter leaves, yet asserts fragrance persists after death and true worth endures before God's throne.
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The Grave Poem by Miles Callen
A quiet poem describing a peaceful graveyard spot where people rest from care. The speaker prays for acceptance of death and a humble meeting with Jesus at the final hour, trusting in divine sovereignty.
The King's Messenger Breathes Peace on a Village Forge
Jeffry Hayes, a fiery village blacksmith famed for news and quarrels, hosts a royal messenger bearing an unconditional pardon for rebels. The visit prompts him to defend forgiveness over vengeance, inspiring him to become a peacemaker and later a royal envoy.
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Hammer
Smith
Stentor
Bagotteen
Savage rites and claims of virtuous endurance in ancient lore
The passage cites philosophers and pagans praised for virtue under extreme trials. It then describes barbaric abduction warfare among tribes, detailing stealth, violence, and ritual killing as part of tribal marriage practices. The text culminates in a grim depiction of captors returning to celebrate their sanctioned acts.
Passion and temper teach a boy a hard lesson
An old man tells a boy not to act in passion as a stone hits a dog and breaks glass. The tale warns that anger worsens trouble and urges calm in small annoyances to endure bigger trials. It stresses bearing bravely through greater offences with steady temper.
Harsh Words and Epithets in Anger Cause Harm
A moral tale contrasts harsh language with patient guidance to a careless boy who breaks a pitcher. It argues kindness builds respect and future care, citing Douglas Jerrold at a party where epitaphs are discussed and Knight asks for his epitaph.
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Hoy
Douglas Jerrald
Jerrald
Charles Knight
Jerrold
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Benefits of drought in soil fertility for Maine farmers
The article explains how drought raises mineral elements from deep soil to the surface through subsurface moisture, carrying salts and carbonates to nourish crops. It argues evaporation concentrates nutrients, while rain then dissolves and distributes them, highlighting drought as beneficial to soil enrichment for farmers in Maine.
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Maine
Vest Pattern Debt and City Impromptu Scams in Syracuse
A narrator recalls days at a Regulator store in Syracuse where a sly con artist named Junos Squares and others fleece customers, bragging about cheek and luck. A night’s mishap ends with a torn sheet and laughing fits as a prank escalates into a curious local tale.
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Boyes
Graire
Jonah
Job Printing Executed On Reasonable Terms
A brief note states job printing was executed at this office with necessary speed and dispatch on reasonable terms.
The Quality of Life and the Saintly Worker
A meditation on how great souls reveal themselves through work and spirit. The author argues noble workers leave lasting images, living with minimal material means yet expressing beauty truth and goodness in action and contemplation.
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Jenet
Shen
Accion
Jumping Mutoh and the Yankee Visitor
A wandering young man recounts fighting at Antietam and Gettysburg, enters a village house, is fed by a young woman who then challenges him to a jump contest. After three leaps she theatrically blocks the door and ejects his belongings, sending him toward a distant tavern seven miles away. The tale ends with his reflection on romance and fate.
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Jeffry Hayes
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the Dell
Hayes
Jeffry
Cain
Aullen
Smith
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Antietam
Gettyaburg
Indy
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Mie Blaanese
Impudent theft incident in Vienna window display
A Vienna man confronts a neighbor who admits lifting from his pocket. The thief coolly defends the act noting the cold October weather makes it reasonable to put a hand anywhere.
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Donlera
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Slang and Choir Quips From a Quizzical Page
A muddled excerpt features musical terms turned into jokes about singers and choir life. It playfully defines slur rest swell and swell with puns on wine movement and leader’s charges.
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Geovina
To Keep Mince Meat from Spoiling in Winter
George P Passmore of Chester County reports to the American Agriculturist that mince meat stored in a shallow surface layer with a half inch of moisture can be kept unweat for months. A later layer of lard may seal in the freshness, according to the reader Naw Hat. The note also makes a light political quip about Republicans and Democrats.
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Chester Co
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